Corals, Hamam Formation, Tal el Dhahab (Jurassic of Jordan)

Where: Jordan (32.2° N, 35.6° E: paleocoordinates 10.8° N, 30.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hamam Formation, Bathonian (168.3 - 166.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; carbonate and siliciclastic

• the dominance of pennular corals with fenestrate septa suggest a comparatively deep environment well below fair weather wave base
• carbonate to siliciclastic rock sequence

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: recrystallized, original aragonite, replaced with calcite

Collected by F. Ahmad

• material has been deposited in the collections of the Institut für Paläontologie der Universität Würzburg

Primary reference: D. K. Pandey, F. Ahmad, and F. T. Fürsich. 2000. Middle Jurassic scleractinian corals from northwestern Jordan. Beringeria 27:3-29 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 83641: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 25.08.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Amphiastreidae
Lochmaeosmilia trapeziformis Gregory 1900 stony coral